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B-287442.2 1 (2002-03-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaoav0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Kalman & Company, Inc. File: B-287442.2 Date: March 21, 2002 Daniel R. Weckstein, Esq., Walter T. Camp, Esq., and Michael L. Sterling, Esq., Vandeventer Black, for the protester. Bernard J. Roan, Esq., and David A. Samuels, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency's evaluation of technical, past performance, and cost proposals was unreasonable is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. DECISION Kalman & Company, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Analytical Services & Materials, Inc. (AS&M) under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP4-00017, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to obtain engineering and technical services (ETS) in support of flight research and development programs for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Kalman argues that the agency improperly evaluated technical, past performance, and cost proposals. We deny the protest. The ETS contract is the primary vehicle by which the Dryden research, projects, management operations, chief engineer's office, and public affairs/education/ commercialization organizations obtain support for flight research projects, internal research and development, and various technical support functions. RFP Statement of Work (SOW) at 3. As a result, the SOW divides the technical requirements into four sections: research engineering support; management system support; chief engineer's office support; and public affairs, commercialization, education outreach (PACE) and history office support. Id. This acquisition combines the current ETS contract with two other Dryden contracts. The solicitation, issued as a small

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